Collaboration/Teams
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Friday, July 16th, 2010Click to play: Two BusinessWeek editors–Rob Hof and Heather Green–involved in writing and editing the special cover story on Web-smart companies, reflect on the insight they gained about Web collaboration and much more.
An Introduction to Blogs and Wikis in the Business World
Thursday, July 15th, 2010Indispensable business collaboration tools and a powerful means of communicating with customers, partners and employees, wikis and blogs have been compared to e-mail in terms of their potential impact on the enterprise. View the original here.
The Latest Advances in Collaborative Software, Part I
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010Sara Bocaneanu presents a comprehensive tour of the latest technologies to improve business collaboration. She discusses the corporate use of instant messaging, wikis, virtual worlds such as “Second Life”, top-end video conferencing, social bookmarking, and collaborative suites. View the original here.
Lynda McDermott on Leading World-Class Teams
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Click to play: In her book, World Class Teams, Lynda McDermott (left) provides a hands-on guide on how to develop, launch, lead, and evaluate, world class teams. With her coauthors William Waite and Nolan Brawley, Lynda draws heavily from their experience with such international firms as Pfizer, Colgate, AT&T, and Motorola to give managers, executive [...]
Online Course: Fundamental Team and Meeting Skills
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010This online course explains the fundamentals of team development, team process and how to conduct effective meetings. The tools and techniques of running a meeting and assorted communication skills are explained. View the original here.
Famous Model of Group Dynamics
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Often quoted, often misunderstood. Bruce Tuckman’s classic description of the stages of group development is easy to understand and remember, but it helps to go back and look at what’s behind each stage. Bruce W Tuckman is a respected educational psychologist who first described the (then) four stages of group development in 1965, soon after [...]
Social Curation: How to Use Pearltrees?
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010A powerful trend taking form in the world of collaborative communication is “social curation,” which is where individuals collaboratively contribute to edit, refine, and compile valuable information resources. A prime example of this trend is a newly launched service called Pearltrees. You can use Pearltrees to keep handy the contents you find everyday on the [...]
Southwest Airlines: Using Myers-Briggs Assessment for Team Building
Monday, April 26th, 2010Download this PDF file Southwest Airlines uses Myers-Briggs Assessment test to help teams build their communication skills.
Increased Collaboration and Communication Within a Virtual Environment
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Users behave and interact differently in virtual experiences than in standard social networking environments. In this informative video, 6Connex CEO, Kevin Carbone, and CTO, Leon Papkoff, examine why and how group dynamics are affected by the unique experience of virtual environments. View the original here.
Why Groups Fail to Share Information Effectively
Monday, March 29th, 2010Stasser and Titus published the best sort of psychology study. Not only does it shine a new light on how groups communicate and make decisions, it also surprises, confuses and intrigues. Oddly, the results first look as if they can’t be right, then later it seems obvious they are right, then attention turns to what [...]
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